The Physics Department is located in Pupin Hall on Columbia University's Morningside Heights Campus in New York City. The department has about 35 faculty who teach and carry out research in the fields of: astrophysics, condensed matter physics, high energy nuclear physics, high energy particle physics, and atomic, molecular, and optical physics. We have about 20 undergraduate physics majors and 100 graduate students in the department per year. The department's research is carried out on-campus in the Pupin Laboratories, Schapiro Hall, at the nearby Nevis Laboratories, and at many off-campus laboratories and sites. The richness of educational opportunities offered at the department is based upon a long and distinguished tradition of teaching and research. Columbia graduates, along with many scientists who spent their formative years here, have gone on to make extraordinary contributions to science as researchers, teachers, and intellectual leaders.

Please join us on Monday, October 5, 2015 as Gary Shiu of the University of Wisconsin at Madison gives his...

Miklos Gyulassy receives Hungarian Government Order of Merit Officer's Cross

On March 14, 2015 Miklos Gyulassy received the Hungarian Government Order of Merit Officer's Cross. Professor Gyulassy, an external member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and professor of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences at Wigner Research Centre of Research, was recognized for his world-renowned achievements in high-energy nuclear physics research and reinforcement of the Hungarian-American nuclear cooperation and action in favor of Hungarian researchers to promote international recognition.

Cory is recognized for his definitive measurement of the Hofstadter butterfly. Douglas Hofstadter first predicted in 1976 that a butterfly-shaped fractal energy spectrum emerges when 2D electrons are subjected simultaneously to both a spatially periodic electric potential and a transverse magnetic field. In combining novel techniques in nanoscale fabrication of graphene-based devices with ultra high magnetic fields, Cory's research provides the first experimental verification of this nearly 40 year old problem.

Pupin Hall Construction Upgrades

Pupin Hall is currently undergoing a series of concurrent projects to provide necessary upgrades to the 90-year-old building while preserving its historic significance on campus. Visit the Pupin Hall Upgrades website to learn more, and view the latest December 2014 project update to learn about the project’s latest developments.